Black '47: Peak of Great Irish Famine from 1845 to 1852 and Beyond:

Primary Sources:

Cormac Ó Gráda, Black '47 and Beyond: the Great Irish Famine in History, Economy and Memory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. (Broad scope concentrates on fresh insights based on interdisciplinary and comparative methods including several economic and sociological features previously neglected. Also, Cormac Ó Gráda Famine: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Ó Gráda related work: http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/economics/professorcormaco'grada/

Cíarán Ó Murchadha, The : 's Agony 1845-1852. London, Bloomsbury, 2011. (Drawing on eyewitness accounts, official reports, newspapers and private diaries, the focus of the book rests on the experiences of those who suffered and died during the Famine, and on those who suffered and survived.)

John Crowley, William J. Smyth and Mike Murphy (eds.), Atlas of the Great Famine. Cork, Cork University Press, 2012. (Includes over 150 original maps of population decline, analysis and examples of poetry, contemporary art, written and oral accounts, numerous illustrations, and photography, all of which help paint a fuller picture of the event and to trace its impact and legacy).

Jack Weatherford, Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World. NY: Three Rivers Press, 2010. (Contribution of South American Indians in Andres of potato that provoked first radical change in diet of people and some animals in Europe.)

Thomas Gallagher, Paddy’s Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. (Journalist account of Ireland immediately before and during famine; difficulties in finding passage to America and then the hell-like conditions of the “coffin ships”; problems faced by the first of the Irish immigrants to land in large numbers in a country decidedly Anglophile.)

Enda Delaney, The Great Irish Famine: A History in Four Lives. : Gill and Macmillan, 2014. (History of this great tragedy through the testimonies of four key contemporaries: John MacHale – the Catholic of ; John Mitchel – the radical nationalist; Elizabeth Smith – the Scottish-born wife of a Wicklow landlord; and Charles E. Trevelyan – the assistant secretary to the Treasury.

Tim Pat Coogan, The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy. (London: Palsgrave Macmillan, 2012). (Accuses the British of willful genocide and stirred up an old debate begun by John Mitchell back in the 19th century. Shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of laissez faire economics, the invocation of Divine Providence and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign.)

Fiction accounts:

Brendan Graham, The Whitest Flower. London, Harper Collins, 1998. (Historical fiction set against the backdrop of the Great Famine.)

Power Point Slides: Edward T. O’Donnell, Making Sense of the Great Irish Famine, 2007: http://becomingamerica.wikispaces.com/file/view/MakingSenseGreatIrishFamine.pdf/88380615/MakingS enseGreatIrishFamine.pdf